Thulium fiber laser: ready to dust all urinary stone composition types?

Etienne Xavier Keller Vincent De ConinckSteeve DoiziMichel Daudon Olivier Traxer

Published in: World journal of urology (2020)

The TFL is capable to produce stone dust from all prevailing stone types. Morpho-constitutional changes found in stone dust suggest a photothermal interaction of laser energy with the stone matrix during TFL lithotripsy.

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